Pictoral chart showing different types of BM

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Okay after you are done giggling, this is a very useful thing! My daughter has some GI issues and trying to explain her bm's is often challenging. If only a nurse had shown me this and let me pick out the one I was trying to describe. I thought someone might find this useful for their patients. Zelnorm might even provide these charts for free if you tell them you are a medical professional.

http://www.zelnorm.com/hcp/images/sectionimages/typechart.jpg

Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

Hey, wait a minute..........they left off the one I see in LTC all the time, that weighs 8 pounds and looks like an exclamation point!!:uhoh3:

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that's the bristol stool scale, and i can't believe you've never seen it before!!

when i was at uni i made it my duty to ensure one of these was in every bathroom in the accomodation blocks.

knowledge is power!

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that's the bristol stool scale, and i can't believe you've never seen it before!!

when i was at uni i made it my duty to ensure one of these was in every bathroom in the accomodation blocks.

knowledge is power!

I can assure you, if I'd ever seen one of these charts, I'd have remembered it! :)

I think it would have been a good idea to see at SOME point in school; I remember asking my instructor just HOW to chart something....interesting....I found in the bowl! :uhoh3:

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I've never seen this. I did have a co-worker that used playdough and colored it brown for a visual display. She formed it into piles of "BM" to show normal BM, a little constipated BM and little balls for very constipated. They really looked "life-like". Never will forget that :)

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Specializes in ER, IICU, PCU, PACU, EMS.

Sorry, that's a great idea with the play-dough, but I had a good chuckle.

I'm going to think of your post next time my daughter plays with her Play-dough!! (The toy, not the poop - LOL!):lol2:

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Specializes in ED, ICU, PSYCH, PP, CEN.

Once again the incredible usefullness of this forum is illuminated. Thanks for adding to my knowledge base. LOL

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maria i have seen the kind that you described..i don't know how they passed it

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Specializes in Level III cardiac/telemetry.

Okay, so which type is normal???? I would love to get a fullsize copy of this to show the girl in my nursing class who always says everything is "Nasty!"

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Specializes in M/S/Tele, Home Health, Gen ICU.

I love all nurses, I've just spent 30 mins on the phone to England discussing my Dads stool, he thinks he's constipated, goes every other day and his BM is type 4, so now he's taking a lxative and says he has diarrhea which to him means he goes daily and has type 5 stools, aaaaggghhh, this will help LOL. It is also TMI for me to know about my DAD!!:chuckle

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Hi there ,we actually use this in the hospital that i work in and it is much easier for patients to use than having them launch in to an embarrassed description.:saint:

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And this is why I love nurses and nursing.....

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Specializes in Education, Acute, Med/Surg, Tele, etc.

Oh my poor patient yesterday...didn't see a totally orbed shape deep brown HUGE hard one on there! LOL! We named it because of the effort she did pushing that one out! LOL!!!!!!!! Dameion!

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